34 EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. [1831, 
I regret that the state of my herbarium will not ad- 
mit of my sending as many specimens of each as I 
could wish or as would be desirable to you. I shall 
be able to obtain an additional supply of most of them 
during the ensuing summer, when it will give me 
pleasure to supply you with those, or any other inter- 
esting plants which I may meet with. I send you a 
few grasses, numbered ; also a few mosses, ete. When 
you have leisure, you will oblige me by sending the 
names of those numbered, and rectify any errors in 
those labeled. If you should be desirous of additional 
specimens, please let me know it, and I will supply 
you in the course of next summer. 
You ask me whether I am desirous of obtaining the 
plants peculiar to New York, New Jersey, etc., or of 
European plants. I should be highly gratified by re- 
ceiving any plants you think proper to send me; and 
will repay you, so far as in my power, by transmitting 
specimens of all the interesting plants I discover. I 
know little of exotic botany, having no foreign speci- 
mens. [am particularly attached to the study of the 
grasses, ferns, ete. If you have any specimens to 
transmit to me, please leave them with Mr. Franklin 
Brown, Attorney at Law, Inns of Court, Beekman 
Street, who will forward them to me by the earliest 
opportunity. 
During the next summer, I intend to visit the west- 
ern part of this State, alsoOhio and Michigan. I shall 
devote a large portion of my time to the collection of 
the plants of the places I visit. If you know of any 
interesting localities, or where any interesting plants 
could be procured, please inform me, and I will en- 
deavor to obtain them for you. 
Respectfully yours, Asa Gray. 
